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"Jim Jordan is one of the most outstanding people I’ve met since
I’ve been in Washington. I believe him 100 percent," Trump told
reporters aboard Air Force One while traveling to Montana.
The allegations were reported on Tuesday by NBC News, which said
Jordan was the assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State from 1986
to 1994.
Jordan, whose name has been floated as a possible successor to
retiring House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, has said
since Ohio State announced in April that it was investigating
former team doctor Richard Strauss that he was previously
unaware of the molestation allegations.
The NBC report said former wrestler Mike DiSabato told the
network that before going to the university with the molestation
charges, he reached out to Jordan, who told him to "Please leave
me out of it."
Another former wrestler, Dunyasha Yetts, said he and others had
explicitly told Jordan about Strauss' behavior, according to the
report.
Ian Fury, a spokesman for Jordan, said the congressman never saw
or heard about any abuse and never had any abuse reported to him
during his time as a coach at Ohio State.
"He has not been contacted by investigators about the matter,
but will assist them in any way they ask, because if what is
alleged is true, the victims deserve a full investigation, and
justice," Fury added in an email.
Strauss, who committed suicide in 2005, was Ohio State's doctor
for the wrestling team from the mid-1970s until the 1990s,
according to the NBC report.
(Reporting by James Oliphant; writing by Mohammad Zargham;
editing by Eric Beech and James Dalgleish)
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